For this, Joan Rivers, we say thank you

September 7, 2014 7:28 PM

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(CNN) -- Joan Rivers didn't consider herself to be one of the boys. And for that, we can be grateful.

Over the course of her nearly 50-year career, Rivers rummaged through, flipped over and laughed at all the facets of being a woman -- from the '60s-era pressure to marry to the reality of aging in a youth-obsessed business -- without ever succumbing to the expectations of what a woman stand-up comed...